Student Health Advisory Committee

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​People from all walks of life make up SHACs. This is perhaps the most important element of a SHAC. It is diversity that guarantees SHAC recommendations reflect the individual needs and values of the community. However, unless community members get involved, SHACs do not work. Therefore, it is essential that every concerned citizen and agency remember its obligation to their SHAC, their school district, and, most importantly, to their community’s children.

​The education, public health, and school health sectors have each called for greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and health to improve each child’s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development. Public health and education serve the same children, often in the same settings. The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) focuses on the child to align the common goals of both sectors. The WSCC model expands on the eight elements of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) coordinated school health approach and is combined with the whole child framework. CDC and ASCD developed this expanded model—in collaboration with key leaders from the fields of health, public health, education, and school health—to strengthen a unified and collaborative approach designed to improve learning and health in our nation’s schools. Learn more about the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model at http://www.ascd.org/programs/learning-and-health/wscc-model.aspx